Thursday, January 29, 2004
3Com, a leading networking solutions provider, planning to hire close to a hundred staffs for its new design center in Taiwan.
3Com, a U.S.-based company will spend US$22 million during the initial phase of the project, which will focus on Layer 2- and Layer 3-switches and WLAN and VoIP products in partnership with Taiwan firms including Accton, Lite-On and Gemtek, the paper wrote.
"The center is expected to maximize our cost-down and R&D capabilities," the report quoted Tseng Ming Ren, 3Com's Taiwan manager, as saying. "We have readjusted our market position and operational strategies after undergoing a restructuring effort last year. Meanwhile, we have formed partnership with Huawei (a communications firm)" he said.
"Sales of switches, our core products, have been growing steadily, and our routers business is doing well too." The center plans to hire nearly 100 employees by the end of 2004. The design center is 3Com's first large-scale R&D facility in Asia. The move represented the affirmation of Taiwan's outstanding research environment and well-run supply chain management by yet another international company. Multinationals that have set up R&D centers in Taiwan include Intel, IBM, HP and Microsoft.
By: DocMemory
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